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Turn your data into PDFs with one API call
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Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…
2018
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Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark, edit, and flatten a document — all in one call. Available actions [2]: - PDF Generator - PDF Converter - Image Converter - OCR - Watermark - Merge - Split - Duplicate - Delete - Flatten Our…
2022
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2017 · github.com
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2021 · pptrconsole.com
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Hey HN, I built a REST API for capturing screenshots and generating PDFs from URLs. Why: I got tired of managing Puppeteer/Playwright in production. Memory leaks, zombie processes, Docker issues. So I wrapped it in an API. Stack: - Node.js + Fastify - Playwright (more stable than Puppeteer in my experience) - Self-hosted on Hetzner Features: - Screenshots: PNG, JPEG, WebP - PDFs: A4, Letter, custom sizes - Full-page capture, custom viewports - Cookie consent auto-accept - Lazy-load handling API example: curl -X POST…
Dec 2025 · screencraftapi.com
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Hey HN! I'm Ivan. I've been working on a solution to visually debug my own https://pptr.dev/ crashes, and this week I opened it to the public: https://buglesstack.com/. If you have any questions or suggestions to improve it, feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Thanks for reading! <3
2025 · buglesstack.com
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2018 · github.com
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2017 · apify.com
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2017 · pdfotter.com
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We saw that the existing solutions have a learning curve and restrictions. So we thought to assemble one that can make things easy. Let me know your thoughts on this.
Oct 2025 · producthunt.com
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